The KOffice team today released the third minor release of the 1.6 series. As the development focus has shifted to the next major release, this new version was aimed at polishing and fixing bugs. With this new version, three new languages are added to the list of translations: Bulgarian, Low Saxon and Nepali. You can read more about it in the full announcement. A full changelog is also available. Currently, you can download binary packages for Kubuntu and openSUSE.

Lox saxon does not work at all with Kubuntu because there is no nds language pack. So you also cannot configure low saxon as a language. Other problems? Firefox integration is a mess. Blogger.com login does not work with Konqueror. Same problems for Wikidot. Scanning (I have a Canon Lide25) is broken (because of an kernel USB bug), but commandline tools work though, playing midi files does not work. Printer configuration hangs here and then. And of course a certain amount of crashes I was not used to before.

via manual download I found out some mirrors seem to have the package, others not, so I downloaded it manually with firefox.

Firefox 2.0.0.4: when I download a file the option "open containing folder" in the download manager does not work at all. With the previous kubuntu it opened that ugly nautilus with the directory. Should be Konqueror or dolphin of course. when you download a file it is very natural that you want to find out where it was saved. currently the only way is to have a look at the properties, then I find our that firefox saved the nds-support package to my wallpaper folder, so I manually open Konqueror to get to that directory.

Now, the package is manually installed.

Same for language-pack-kde-nds_7.04+20070412_all.deb

I forgot, when I take the Firefox download manager with the deb package and select open as an option it gets opened with Ark. Not really what you want. this time the file was downloaded to the desktop folder.

So now I take the system settings. I select langauge setting. I try to select "add language", but Low saxon does not show up and a option. Interestingly the menu features languages that are already installed.

Then we have that confusing other option "Install new language"- the only reaction I get is that these buttons are now made unselectable.

Now I remember there was a tool called Kcontrol. Interestingly Kubuntu does not support it. hmm.

Anyway, I also try to manually install that language-pack-nds file. I click on the Czech mirror. firefox is so smart to display that binary file in a window. umm, okay so download as last time.

An ugly gnome file dialogue opens on where to save the file. I select desktop. interestingly the naming proposal of the file is lost then. That really sucks. I hate this Gnome shit but Konqui does not render everything correctly. Try again. So I save again to my wallpaper folder. Use dolphin to check into my wallpaper. folder. Again I install the package manually.

Try again system settings. Unfortunately the window is still grey and I cannot select anything. Close it. Open it again. Add language. Still no low saxon.

You can use Kcontrol in kubuntu, just press alt+F2 en then type: "kcontrol" or "sudo kcontrol" if you need administration rights. But I agree, Firefox integration in kubuntu is a mess, it uses gnome stuff everywhere, but I don't mind as I love konqueror.

What I really find nasty is that Kubuntu tries to restore the previous session and that means when you have opend ten pdf files from the net, it will inform you that these files are not available anymore in the temp-folder. Surprise, surprise!

That is a bug with firefox or whatever browser you use. Every KDE (and I think Gnome too?) application, including the PDF viewers, is able to open the file directly from the net if given the URL. So there's no need to save it in the temp directory.

Because KDict is a dictionary (client), it helps in education and KDict is one of the Killer Applications KDE has. So, it should be put in Edu or in Utilities or in Office, anyhow, it should be available with Default KDE installation.

KDict is my 3rd most used application in KDE:

1. KTorrent
2. Konqueror
3. KDict
4. SMplayer
5. KWord
6. KPdf

I hope KDict will be available in KDE 4.

"kdict -c" is just superb - select a word and run "kdict -c" for an instant dictionary lookup :) //one can have a .desktop file with the above command too!

KDict IMHO has basically nothing of educational, it's just a simple tool/utility that finds the definitions of words.
It's something for "everyday usage" more than an educational application.

> anyhow, it should be available with Default KDE installation.
It seems you never cared to look at kdenetwork.

> I hope KDict will be available in KDE 4.
Nope, it won't be in KDE 4.0, as it was unmaintaned for years.
And it won't be in KDE 4.1, 4.2, etc if nobody will work on it, or on a brand new application with KDict's functions.